The Latest Breaking News from America

It’s often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian bigotry. In fact, it’s the other way around

20% of adults ages 50+ have no retirement savings, 61% worry they won't have enough at retirement, as per new AARP survey. Plus six tips to start saving now.

Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either

Harvard scientists find American cities save $207,200 every time they electrify just one old diesel bus

I’ll Have What She’s Having, at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC, is a celebration of the delicatessen and its place in US culture

Globalisation is on shaky ground. As China rises, the United States and its allies are moving to reduce their reliance on the world’s factory.

U-turn by ex-president’s most enduring rival during Republican primaries provokes swift backlash

Landfills emit three times as much methane as previously thought, a new study reveals.

The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with ‘red squads’, Huac and J Edgar Hoover

The superstar of the avant garde has revisited a notorious football tackle that left one player paralysed. He talks about violence, ageing and how the US empire is in decline

Donald Trump has complained nonstop for weeks about being gagged. The hush money trial, involving an alleged pay-off to porn star Stormy Daniels, has been monstrously unfair, he wailed repeatedly outside court. According to his own version of events, his prosecution was a horrible witch hunt, built on lies, because…